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The demographic dividend and the power of youth
Eirliani abdul rahman , Elsamarie d'silva , Sonja peteranderlThe book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
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Homelands
Nick baron , Peter gatrellA comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.
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Sounding prose
Natascha veldhorstThis book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compellin...
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Arab development denied
Ali kadriAli Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.
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The old world, the new world, and the creation of the modern world, 1400–1650
Aaron m. shatzmanThis book provides a unique look at the early years of European discovery and colonization, analyzing the impact of this period on the historical development of both the New and Old Worlds.
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Australia as the antipodal utopia
Daniel hempel , Bill ashcroftAustralia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Au...
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Anthology of new woman poetry
Patricia murphyWomen poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, ...
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Lest we lose love
Scherto gillLest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amon...
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Managing coral reefs
Kelly heber dunning‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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Jasmine
Noboru tsujihara , Juliet w. carpenterIntrigue, betrayal, family secrets, forbidden passions – this tale of adventure and suspense links the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995 through the story of a man searching for his father, long assumed dead but in fact revealed to be missing in China, and in danger.
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Hometown hamburg
Frank domurad‘Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.
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The bengal borderland
Willem van schendelA look at South Asia beyond state and nation.
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Non-violence and ecological imperatives
Ramin jahanbegloo , Pooja sharmaIn this era, when climate change is the biggest global challenge to humanity, it is crucial to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment. The book will unfold the relevance of non-violence that is not only limited to the peaceful co-existence of humankind but also signifies ...
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Teaching palestine on an israeli university campus
Daphna golan-agnonThe word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around...
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Holland house and portugal, 1793–1840
Jose baptista de sousa‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focusses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establi...
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Farewell, my beautiful homeland
Ahmet ümit , Rakesh jobanputra‘Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland’ is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse.
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How transformative innovations shaped the rise of nations
Gerard tellis , Stav rosenzweigOver the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed various small regions into global powers. But they have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation. Gerard J. Tellis and Stav Rosenzweig argue in ‘How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations’ that openness...
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The craft of professional writing
Michael s. malone‘The Craft of Professional Writing’ is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer.
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Sisters and the english household
Anne d. wallace‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the disc...
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Athletic ceos
Stanislav shekshnia , Alexey ulanovsky , Veronika zagievaAthletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – athletic leadership – that delivers superior results in a specific context, that is, one of fast obsolescence, high turbulence, intense government interference, ...
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Joseph conrad
Joseph conrad , Robert hampsonAnthem Classics presents a selected collection of Joseph Conrad’s novels – ‘Heart of Darkness’, ‘Lord Jim’, ‘Nostromo’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ – in a single volume.
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Day of the angel
Irina muravyova , John dewey‘Day of the Angel’ follows the fates and fortunes of three generations of the Ushakov family, members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution.
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From happy homemaker to desperate housewives
Rebecca feasey‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
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Up against the wall
Peter laufer , Vicente foxThe book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
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Origins of the ottoman dynasty
Kemal silayOrigins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account is a groundbreaking book. It is about the oldest annalistic account of Ottoman history that has come down to us. It is simply crucial for researching and teaching Ottoman history at every major university in the wo...
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V. s. naipaul of trinidad
Nivedita misraThe book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.
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Human rights, security politics and embodiment
Aneira j. edmundsHow have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glosse...
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Resisting from morocco's margins
Tina baroutiResisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.
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Ikarians in south australia, 1900-1945
Yianni (john) cartledgeThis book explores the migration of Greeks from the island of Ikaria to South Australia between 1900 and 1945. This little-researched diaspora is examined alongside the key themes of emigration, settlement, community building and integration.
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The technocene
Hermínio martins , S. ravi rajan , Danielle crawfordHermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist. ‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford. The essays address the ethical and societal consequences of the c...
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Reclaiming development studies
Murat arsel , Anirban dasgupta , Servaas stormAs the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.
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Visuality in the novels of austen, radcliffe, edgeworth and burney
Jessica a. volz‘Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney’ examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women’s novels published be...
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An introduction to changing india
Sirpa tenhunen , Minna sääväläThis book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
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The anthem anthology of victorian sonnets
Michael j. allen‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
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Reading as a philosophical practice
Robert pierceyThis book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
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Ascetics and brahmins
Patrick olivelleThis volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
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Negotiation for entrepreneurship
Vimal babu , Robert hisrichThe book deals with extraordinary insights about negotiation for start-up entrepreneurs and introduces several strategies and tactics to improve negotiation skills in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Authors unbox several complex and conflicting scenarios and attempt to build an entrepreneurial mind...
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Renaissance themes
Sukanta chaudhuriThese essays in honour of Arun Kumar Das Gupta present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies with a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance. Ranging from an investigation into the modes and registers in Renaissance philosophic discourse, to compa...
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The development of a theory of social structure and personality
Melvin l. kohnMelvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.
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Sites of performance
Clark lunberry‘Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory’ focuses on the impact of time and memory as they intersect and constitute the varied spaces of theatre, performance and installation art.
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Fighting scholars
Raúl sánchez garcía , Dale c. spencer‘Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Bod...
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Bauman's legacy
Carlo bordoniWhat remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.
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The other canon of economics, volume 2
Erik reinert , Rainer kattelOther Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today.
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Information technologies and economic development in latin america
Alberto chong , Mónica yáñez-pagansInformation Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and...
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Outsiders looking in
David clifford , Laurence roussillonA fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
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Perceptions of the press in nineteenth-century british periodicals
E. m. palmegianoThis annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press.
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Techno-economic paradigms
Wolfgang drechsler , Rainer kattel , Erik s. reinert‘Techno-Economic Paradigms’ presents a series of essays discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times: techno-economic paradigm shifts.
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Narrative medicine in education, practice, and interventions
Anders juhl rasmussen , Anne-marie mai , Helle ploug hansenThis anthology is the first of its kind which integrates chapters on legitimizing narrative medicine in education, practice and research, on analyzing types of patient narratives and on studying interventions applying vulnerable or shared reading, creative writing, or Socratic dialogue as a means...
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Mining and natural hazard vulnerability in the philippines
William n. holden , R. daniel jacobsonThis book explores how natural hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago’s poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture.
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Logisch-philosophische abhandlung: die hundertjahrsausgabe
Ludwig wittgenstein , Luciano bazzocchi , P.m.s. hackerBazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the logical form of the book by distinct reading units, linked into a fashioned hierarchical tree. The text becomes much clearer and every reader can enjoy, finally, i...
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California gothic: the dark side of the dream
Charles l. crowCalifornia has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.
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